HuffPost takes a look at the top scandals that have hit the political world in recent times.

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Fox resigned as Defence Secretary in October 2011, after it was shown that he had broken the ministerial code in allowing Adam Werritty improper access to government. Werritty - who had been Fox's best man - had printed business cards claiming to be an adviser to the defence secretary, despite not being appointed as a special adviser.
Fox quit after an internal investigation showed clear breaches of the ministerial code.

Former energy secretary Chris Huhne resigned in Febuary, having been charged with perverting the course of justice. He is accused of asking his now ex-wife Vicky Pryce to take speeding points on his behalf.
Huhne has denied the charges - the case continues to work its way through the courts.

Lib Dem David Laws resigned as Chief Secretary to the Treasury just days after the coalition was formed. He had been claiming expenses on his boyfriend's flat.
The Laws scandal was complicated by the fact that he'd done this not for obvious financial gain, but to avoid disclosing that he was gay.

The floating duck house became synonymous with the MPs expenses scandal after Sir Peter Viggers tried to claim for an ornamental duck house. The receipt, from a company specialising in 'bird pavilions' said: "Price includes three anchor blocks, duck house and island."

One of the low-points in Tony Blair's time in Number 10 - the suggestion was that Labour party lenders were being offered peerages and other honours.
The allegations led to a police inquiry which ran for nearly 18 months. Nobody was charged in connection with the probe, but the allegations were highly damaging to Blair's premiership.

Resigning twice from cabinet positions following scandals, the first in 1998 concerning an interest free loan, and the second in 2001 alleging that he influenced a passport application. He has now been made a life peer in the House of Lords.

Jo Moore, spin doctor for then-transport secretary Stephen Byers wrote an email suggesting that the bombing of the Twin Towers in New York City produced a ripe opportunity for slipping in some unflattering transport statistics. After the email was leaked she was forced to resign in 2002.

Subject of a kiss and tell scandal in 1992. It was alleged that actress Antonia De Sancha and Mellor had an extra marital affair involving toe sucking and dressing up in a Chelsea FC football strip.
However it was a holiday paid for by the ruler of Abu Dhabi that led him to resign from his post as Secretary of State for National Heritage later on in 1992.

John Major and Edwina Currie's four-year affair began in 1984, but was only revealed in her 2002 memoirs.

Archer's political career ended in disgrace after he was convicted and imprisoned for 2 years for perjury and perverting the course of justice in 2001.

Ron Davies, former Secretary of State for Wales, was mugged at knifepoint after going out for a meal with a man he met on Clapham Common, a notorious gay rendezvous.
He infamously called it a "moment of madness" at the urging of Tony Blair's Press Secretary Alastair Campbell. He later said he had been bisexual for some time, and was suffering from a personality disorder which caused him to take unnecessary risks. He stood down from Parliament at the 2001 general election.

Oaten was forced to resign from his bid for Liberal Democrat party leadership and step down from parliamentary office in 2006 after it was revealed that he had slept with a 23-year-old male prostitute between 2004 and 2005

Al Fayed accused MPs of taking bribes to ask questions in parliament. Neil Hamilton subsequently took Al Fayed to court and lost. Two Conservative MPs Graham Riddick and David Treddinick were also implicated in the scandal that followed.